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No. 62!,856. Patented Mar. 28, I899; v

J. SCHWARZ.

EASEL.

(Application filed Jan. 14, 1899,)

(No Model.)

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JACOB SOHIVARZ, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

EASEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 621,856, dated March28, 1899.

Application filed January 14, 1899. Serial No. 702,128. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB SOHWARZ, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Easels, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to easels; and the ob ject of said invention is toprovide a simple and efficient support for the picture or other articleto be supported upon the easel, which supporting means may be readilyattached to an easel of any suitable type or character.

To these ends my invention consists in the novel arrangement andcombination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofan easel embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail verticalsectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a transversesectional View of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In Fig. 1 of the drawings an easel is illustrated which may be of anydesired or preferred construction, and said easel is provided with theusual supporting-standards a. To each of these supporting-standards issecured a rack-bar b, which is detachably secured in place by means ofscrews 0 or some such equivalent means. Each of these rack-bars isprovided at the sides thereof with grooves (l, which preferably extendthroughout the length thereof. Cooperating with each of these rack-barsis a slide A, which, as indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, is providedon each side with a longitudinal flange e,

cated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. At the lower end of each rack-bar isprovided a pin it, which limits the downward movement of each of thesupports and its carrier. By this means the slides A, with the supports,may be adjusted as to height when the supports are free from pressure,and when a pressure is exerted upon the supports B, as when a picture issupported thereon, they will be secured against movement by forcing thepawls g into engagement with the rack-bars l), and the greater thepressure exerted upon the supports the more socurely will they bemaintained against movement;

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

1. An easel comprising suitable supportingstandards, a rack-bardetachably secured to each of said standards, each of said rack-barsbeing provided with longitudinal grooves therein, a slide adapted toengage in the grooves of each of said rack-bars, a support pivoted atits upper portion to each of said slides and provided with a pawl at thelower portion thereof which is adapted to engage with its respectiverack-bar, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. An easel comprising suitablesupportingstandards, a rack-bardetachably secured to each of said standards, each of said rack-barsbeing provided with longitudinal grooves in the sides thereof, a slidehaving engaging flanges adapted to slide in the grooves of each of saidrack-bars, a support pivoted at its upper portion to each of said slidesand provided with an integral pawl at the lower portion thereof which isadapted to engage with its respective rack bar, whereby the supports maybe adjusted to different heights when they are free from pressure and apressure exerted upon said supports will maintain the pawls thereon inengagement with the rackbars.

JACOB SCHWARZ. Witnesses:

CHARLES E. SMITH,

ALFRED T. HUTcnINsoN.

